TB @ TEX
Home plate: Will Little
“The kind of night where the umpire is the least of the story.”
What this shows — how Will Little called the 141 pitches that were taken (no swing), graded against the tracked rulebook strike zone. He got 131 right. Below, only his misses are plotted, alongside every pitch the ABS (Automated Ball-Strike System) reviewed on a challenge.
The zone, as he called it
The calls that moved the game
- 1+0.13▼8 · 1-0 strike called ball
Danny Jansen vs Kevin Kelly - 2-0.13▼10 · 1-0 ball called strike
Cody Freeman vs Tyler Wells - 3-0.10▲4 · 0-1 ball called strike· challenged ✓
Liam Hicks vs Jacob deGrom
Run impact from the count run-value table: a missed strike three is worth far more than one on 3-0.
ABS — the Automated Ball-Strike System
3 pitches went to the robots · 2 overturned (ump overruled) · 1 upheld (ump confirmed). This is the ABS system’s own measurement — Hawk-Eye optical ball-tracking, not our model.
- 1Liam Hicks — ump said strike, robot ruled ball: overturned.
- 2Ryan Vilade — ump said strike, robot ruled ball: overturned.
- 3Kenny Piper — ump said ball, robot ruled ball: upheld.
Our tracked-rulebook zone matched the ABS ruling on 3 of 3 — a zone-definition gap (ABS grades a standardized, height-based zone), not our error.